FRC Jurisdictions Portal
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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.
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Item type:Item, An Ordinance for the Purpose of Creating a Revenue for the Town of Lake Charles, Levying a License on Trades, Professions, Occupations, etc., § 1, para. 3, in The Lake Charles Echo, Jan. 17, 1880, at 1(1880)Imposed a $25 license on shooting galleries with fewer than two tables, alleys, or targets, and a $40 license on galleries with two or more tables, alleys, or targets, with an additional $2 fee per table, alley, or target after the second.Item type:Item, Amendments to the Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Jackson 16-17 (1882)(1882)Required the city assessor to prepare separate real and personal property assessment rolls, including separate columns listing and valuing pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, sword-canes, and other guns.Item type:Item, The General Orders of the Board of Supervisors Providing Regulations for the Government of the City and County of San Francisco 95 (1881)(1880)Imposed license rates for sellers and keepers of gunpowder and shooting galleries.Item type:Item, An Ordinance to Levy and Enforce Payment of an Annual License Tax, in The Lafayette Advertiser, Feb. 2, 1889, at 8(1889)Imposed a $5 tax on all gun and pistol establishments and shooting galleries.Item type:Item, Concerning Firearms, in Alameda Encinal, May 3, 1882, at 3(1882)Prohibited firing firearms, pistols, or cannons on streets, wharves, or private property without owner consent, punishable by up to a $50 fine, 25 days' imprisonment, or both.Item type:Item, Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs 168-169 (1887)(1887)§§ 5-6: Prohibited operating a pistol gallery or shooting gallery without a license. Licenses shall cost ten dollars per month or fifty dollars per year. Minors are prohibited at the ranges.Item type:Item, 1882 Wyo. Sess. Laws 174(1882)Prohibited the exhibition of any kind of firearm, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, or other deadly weapon in a rude, angry, or threatening manner not necessary for self defense of his person, his family, or property. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than ten but no more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or by both such fine and imprisonment.Item type:Item, Wash. Const. art. 1, § 24(1889)The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the State, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.Item type:Item, Ordinances, ch. 1, tit. 1, § 3, THE BOTTINEAU PIONEER, Dec. 13, 1888, at 4 (Bottineau, North Dakota)(1888)Any person found armed within the corporate limits of the village of Bottineau with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive or dangerous weapons, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person or to his family or property, shall, upon conviction before said justice, be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the village jail not exceeding term of thirty days.Item type:Item, Mont. Const. of 1889 art. III, § 13(1889)The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weaponsItem type:Item, 1884 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 134(1884)[T]o regulate the storage of gun-powder, kerosene and other dangerous material[.]Item type:Item, List of Members, By-laws, and Reports of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association 32 (1887)(1887)That the custom of carrying firearms, except in the immediate vicinity of Indian reservations, should be discountenanced, and it is hereby made the duty of the members of this Association, foremen of round-ups, and foremen of ranges, to use every effort in their power to prevent the carrying of firearms by cattle men at all times and places except when absolutely necessary. Resolved, That the members of this Association hereby pledge themselves as far as in their power to carry out the spirit of this resolution."Item type:Item, 1884 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 114(1884)Prohibited exhibiting in a threatening manner a fire-arm, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-100 or imprisonment up to 6 months.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 315(1883)The powers conferred upon the said council to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances, shall not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings in the courts according of law. Depots, houses or buildings of any kind, wherein more than twenty-five pounds of gun powder are deposited, stored or kept at any one time . . . within the limits of said city are hereby declared and shall be deemed public or common nuisances.Item type:Item, 1885 Wis. Sess. Laws 1109(1885)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the carrying concealed of any pistol, revolver, sling shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, Bowie knife, dirk knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1887 Wis. Sess. Laws 336(1887)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the concealed carry of any pistol, sling shot, knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal,, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 1034(1883)Authorized the city to prohibit and prevent the concealed carry of any pistol, sling-shot, knuckles, Bowie knife, dirk knife, dirk, or dagger, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1885 Wis. Sess. Laws 753(1885)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the carrying concealed of any pistol, sling shot, knuckles, Bowie knife, dirk knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 990(1883)Authorized the city to prohibit and prevent the carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, or other concealed and dangerous weapon, except as authorized by law.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 713(1883)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol or colt, or slungshot, or cross knuckles or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal or Bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Punishable by confiscation of the weapon.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 841(1883)Any person who shall be found in or upon any street, alley or public ground within said city, or within any saloon, shop, store, grocery, hall, church, school house, barn, building or other place within said city . . . shall use toward or in the presence of another, violent or insulting language or be guilty of any breach of the peace, or firing of any gun or pistol, or fighting or threatening to fight, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty-five ($25) dollars and costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse 177 (1888)(1888)It shall be unlawful for any person to use firearms or to shoot off a gun or pistol or to hunt game or birds within the limits of any cemetery in the city of La Crosse; or to rob or disturb birds' nests therein, or to enter any cemetery except by the gate, and then only at such times as the same may be open to the public; or to enter the same as a thoroughfare in going from one place to another. Any person violating any provisions of this section, shall upon conviction, be fined in a sum not more than ten dollars, and in case of a second conviction shall be imprisoned not more than sixty days nor less than ten days.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council, at 202, Ordinance no. 27 (1888)(1881)No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any description, or fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material, or set off or exhibit any fireworks within the limits of the city of La CrosseItem type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse 239–42 (1888)(1881)It shall be unlawful for any person to keep for sale, sell or give away any gunpowder, giant powder, nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton, dynamite or any other explosive substance of like nature or use without having first obtained a license therefor from the city of La Crosse in the manner hereinafter provided. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars for each offense.Item type:Item, 1887 Wis. Sess. Laws 754(1887)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the concealed carry of any pistol, slung shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse 25–26 (1888)(1881)The common council has power. . . Pt. 36. To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person, any pistol, slung-shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk or any other dangerous weapon, and to provide for the confiscation and sale of such weapons.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse 176 (1888)(1881)It shall be unlawful for any person other than a policeman or other officer authorized to maintain the peace and to serve process to carry or wear any pistol, slungshot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk or any other dangerous weapon, and any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. In all cases of conviction hereunder, any and all dangerous weapons found on the person accused shall be confiscated and become the property of the City of La Crosse.Item type:Item, 1885 Wis. Sess. Laws 126(1885)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the carrying concealed of any pistol, sling shot, knuckles, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1882 Wis. Sess. Laws 309(1882)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry of any pistol, sling shot, knuckles, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse 202 (1888)(1881)Prohibited discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, firearms, squibs, cracker, any of other thing containing powder or explosive material, or set off any fireworks. Violators fined not less than one but no more than twenty-five dollars.Item type:Item, 1887 Wis. Sess. Laws 684(1887)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the concealed carry of any pistol, sling shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 370(1883)To prohibit, restrain or regulate the discharge of fire-arms and the explosion of gunpowder and guncotton, and the firing of firecrackers and fireworks of any kind within the city.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 369-70(1883)To prevent and prohibit the manufacture, keeping or storing of nitro-glycerine, and to regulate the keeping and storing of gunpowder, gun cotton, burning fluids, coal oils and other dangerous explosive materials, in said city, and to provide for the inspection of illuminating oils and fluids.Item type:Item, 1887 Wis. Sess. Laws 1308(1887)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the concealed carry of any pistol, sling shot, knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal,, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Wis. Rev. Stat. Supp. 847, ch. 181, §4397a(1) (1883)(1882)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or use, or have in his possession, for the purpose of exposing for sale or use, any toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy fire-arm.Item type:Item, 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 290(1883)It shall be unlawful for any minor, within this state, to go armed with any pistol or revolver, and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, or other public police officers, to take from any minor, any pistol or revolver, found in his possession. It shall be unlawful for any dealer in pistols or revolvers, or any other person, to sell, loan, or give any pistol or revolver to any minor in this state. It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication, to go armed with any pistol or revolver. Any person violating the provisions of this act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).Item type:Item, 1882 Wis. Sess. Laws 389(1882)Ch. 116, § 1: "It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or use, or have in his possession, for the purpose of exposing for sale or use, any toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy fire-arm"Item type:Item, Wis. Rev. Stat. Supp. 848, ch. 181, §4397b(3) (1883)(1883)It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication to go armed with any pistol or revolver. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Wis. Stat. Ann. 2226, §§ 4397-4397b (1889)(1889)Prohibited carrying concealed dangerous weapons, carrying pistols or revolvers by minors or intoxicated persons, and selling, lending, or giving pistols or revolvers to minors. It also prohibited the sale or use of toy firearms. Violations generally carried up to six months’ imprisonment, a fine up to $100, or both.Item type:Item, 1889 W. Va. Acts 86(1889)Other Militia Not to Parade, etc., ch. 24-Relating to the Militia, § 13: The West Virginia National Guard shall consist of not exceeding twenty companies of infantry, which divided into regiments, shall constitute the West Virginia National Guard, and it shall not be lawful for anybody [sic] of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized National Guard or militia or the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms, in any city or town in the state, without the license of the governor therefor, which may at any time be revoked, nor shall it be lawful for any city or town to raise or appropriate any money towards arming, equipping, uniforming, or in any way supporting or sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories, for any such bodies of men.